Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

A leader is someone who puts their people in position to be successful all the time

Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play.

You don't just be a team. You become a team. Through tough games you find that you need each other

Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.

If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win.

My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

I'm looking for players who make their teammates better. You do that with enthusiasm and passion.

Effective teamwork begins and ends with communication

We need to know that our limits do not define our limitations. And an empty tomb does exactly that.

...I do not know how I can feel this much pain and survive, and at the same time know how much I have to live.

The Bible, divine wisdom.

We must be drawn by the idea of where we want to go more than we dislike the idea of all the work it is going to take to get there.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]

Without raising human consciousness, whatever we do in the world will only lead to more and more suffering.

I say to my friends, 'Don't just listen to the vuvuzelas; look at who scores the goals.' And this is the important thing.

You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.

Without death there would be very little progress.